A cyber-attack that hit organisations worldwide including the UK’s National Health Service was “unprecedented”, Europe’s police agency says. Europol also warned a “complex international investigation” was required “to identify the culprits”. Ransomware encrypted data on at least 75,000 computers in 99 countries on Friday. Payments were demanded for access to be restored. European countries, including Russia, were among the worst ...

Manchester City grabbed all three points in their penultimate home game after a frantic, dramatic encounter saw them defeat Leicester City 2-1. City took the lead in controversial circumstances as Raheem Sterling may have touched David Silva’s goalbound effort in an offside position, and they went two up after Gabriel Jesus scored from the spot. Shinji Okazaki pulled one back ...

A lecturer with the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana says Ghana does not have any strategy towards China to enable it to win the war on galamsey. A lecturer with the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana says Ghana does not have any foreign policy towards China to enable it to win the war on ...

Two teenage boys who shot a 14-year-old girl because her Snapchats were annoying them will be charged as adults, a judge ruled Wednesday. Sixteen-year-old Colter Danny Peterson and 16-year-old Jayzen Decker were accused of shooting 14-year-old Deserae Turner in the back of the head February 16 in Smithfield, Utah. First District Juvenile Court judge Angela Fonnesbeck ruled that Peterson would ...

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. on Saturday presented President Trump with an honorary Doctorate of Laws at the Lynchburg, Va. school’s commencement ceremony. In a speech that painted Trump as a fierce political ally of evangelical Christians, Falwell praised Trump’s early accomplishments in office and admonished the news media and academics for their “relentless” attacks on the president. “President ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has assured students of Technical High Schools that his government will equip them with skills to cope in a fast-changing world. According to President Akufo-Addo, his government will not “turn the Free SHS into a process that simply churns out young people that would not be equipped to cope with the modern world”, stressing that “a High ...

Ghana defender Rashid Sumaila is one of the five players who have been nominated for Al Gharafa Fans Player of the Year award. The club’s supporters Player of the year awards celebrate the outstanding performer in the season gone by. Sumaila is joined on the Player of the Year award shortlist by Yusuf Hassan, Fheed Al Shammari, Othman Al Yahari ...

Artiste Manager Mel Kwasi Davis, who doubles as the boss of Event Republic, has stated emphatically that hip-life artiste Guru cannot be classified as an A-List artiste in Ghana. Explaining who an A-List artiste is, Mel Kwasi Davis said an “A-List artiste must be an artiste who has a track record and he/she must be relevant in the current dispensation. ...

Abuja – Eight-two of Nigeria’s Chibok schoolgirls are free thanks to a prisoner swap between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram. The release is the biggest since the armed group swarmed a school in northern Nigeria in April 2014, kidnapping 276 girls. But the ordeal is not over for the freed girls and their families, according to Peter Joseph, the ...

The CEO of EIB Network and Empire group of companies, Nathan Anokye-Adisi (Bola Ray) has been conferred with the title ‘Individual Philanthropist of the Year’ for his benevolent undertakings. The media mogul and philanthropist, was one of six winners announced at the National Philanthropy Forum-Ghana’s (NPF-G) awards ceremony held at the Accra International Conference Centre. A delegation from the NPF-G ...